HistoryPod

544 Episodes

1. 21st August 1911: Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre in Paris

   Published: 8/21/2025
2. 20th August 1975: NASA launches Viking 1, the first spacecraft to land on Mars and transmit images of the surface back to Earth

   Published: 8/20/2025
3. 19th August 1934: The first All-American Soap Box Derby held in Dayton, Ohio

   Published: 8/19/2025
4. 18th August 1612: The trials of nine Lancashire women and two men known as the Pendle Witches begin

   Published: 8/18/2025
5. 17th August 1945: Animal Farm by George Orwell published in the United Kingdom

   Published: 8/17/2025
6. 16th August 1819: An estimated 15 protestors are killed in the Peterloo Massacre at St Peter’s Field in Manchester

   Published: 8/16/2025
7. 15th August 1965: The Beatles perform at Shea Stadium in New York City, in front of a crowd of over 55,000 people

   Published: 8/15/2025
8. 14th August 1980: Lech Walesa leads a strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk and triggers the formation of the Solidarity trade union

   Published: 8/14/2025
9. 13th August 1521: Aztec Empire ends with the Fall of Tenochtitlan to Spanish forces led by Hernán Cortés

   Published: 8/13/2025
10. 12th August 1981: IBM announces the release of the 5150, the first IBM Personal Computer

    Published: 8/12/2025
11. 11th August 1929: Babe Ruth becomes the first Major League Baseball player to hit 500 home runs

    Published: 8/11/2025
12. 10th August 1961: United States begins Operation Ranch Hand to destroy trees and crops during the Vietnam War

    Published: 8/10/2025
13. 9th August 1974: Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States of America while facing impeachment due to the Watergate Scandal

    Published: 8/9/2025
14. 8th August 1786: Mont Blanc was successfully climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard

    Published: 8/8/2025
15. 7th August 1964: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed by the United States Congress

    Published: 8/7/2025
16. 6th August 1945: The United States drop an atomic bomb nicknamed ‘Little Boy’ on the Japanese city of Hiroshima from the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay

    Published: 8/6/2025
17. 5th August 1914: The Battle of Liège begins, marking the first major engagement of the First World War

    Published: 8/5/2025
18. 4th August 1789: The August Decrees result in the National Constituent Assembly of France voting to abolish the feudal system

    Published: 8/4/2025
19. 3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from the Spanish port of Palos de la Frontera on the voyage that takes him to the Americas

    Published: 8/3/2025
20. 2nd August 1940: No. 303 Squadron, one of two Polish RAF squadrons in the Battle of Britain, formed at RAF Northolt

    Published: 8/2/2025